| 9:00–9:30 |
Introduction: Michael
Mussa, Economic Counselor and Director
of Research
IMF Opening Remarks: Stanley
Fischer, First Deputy Managing Director, IMF |
| 9:30–12:15 |
Chair (Michael Mussa) |
| |
Gary Moser (IMF) and
Toshihiro Ichida
(Columbia University):
Economic Growth and
Poverty Reduction in
Sub-Saharan Africa
Discussant: Ibrahim A. Elbadawi (World
Bank) |
| |
Jahangir Aziz (IMF):
India's Interstate Poverty Dynamics
Discussant: Xavier Sala-i-Martin (Columbia University) |
| |
Kenichi Ueda (IMF) and
Robert Townsend
(University of Chicago):
Transitional Growth
with Increasing
Inequality and Financial Deepening
Discussant: Angus Deaton (Princeton University) |
| 1:45–4:00 |
Chair (Mohsin Khan,
IMF) |
| |
Hong-Sang Jung (IMF)
and Erik Thorbecke
(Cornell University):
Appraising the Impact
of Public Expenditure
on Education in Tanzania
and Zambia
Discussant: François Bourguignon (World Bank) |
| |
Markus Haacker (IMF):
The Economic Consequences
of HIV/AIDS in
Southern Africa
Discussant: John Cuddington (Georgetown University) |
| |
Zuzana Brixiová,
Ales Bulír (IMF), and Joshua Comenetz
(University of Florida):
The Widening Gender Gap in Education
in Eritrea
Discussant: Susan Razzaz (World Bank) |
| 4:20–6:00 |
Chair (Ernesto Hernández-Catá,
IMF) |
| |
Paul Masson (IMF):
Migration, Human
Capital and Poverty in a
Dual-Economy Model
of a Developing Country
Discussant: Oded Galor (Brown University) |
| |
Luiz de Mello, Emanuele
Baldacci and Gabriela Inchauste (IMF):
Financial Crises and Poverty
Discussant: Nora Lustig (Inter-American Development Bank)
|
| 8:00 |
Nicholas Stern, Chief Economist, World Bank
Dinner Speech
|
Friday, April 13
|
| 9:15-12:00 |
Chair (Masood Ahmed,
IMF) |
| |
Stephanie Eble and Petya
Koeva (IMF):
The Distributional
Effects of Macroeconomic
Crises: Microeconomic
Evidence from Russia
Discussant: David Sahn (Cornell University) |
| |
Javier Hamann and Ales
Bulír (IMF):
How Volatile and
Predictable are Aid Flows,
and What are the Policy
Implications?
Discussant: T.N. Srinivasan (Yale University) |
| |
Eswar Prasad (IMF) and
Michael Keane
(New York University):
The Evolution of
Earnings Inequality During
the Economic Transition
in Poland
Discussant: Susan Collins (IMF) |
| 1:30–3:10 |
Chair (Paul Collier,
World Bank): |
| |
Era Dabla-Norris, John
Matovu and Paul Wade (IMF):
Debt Relief, Income Distribution and Poverty
Discussant: Shantayanan Devarajan (World Bank) |
| |
Domenico Fanizza (IMF)
and Craig Burnside
(World Bank):
Hiccups for HIPCs
Discussant: Kenneth Kletzer (IMF) |
| 3:30–5:00 |
Concluding session:
Panel on Macroeconomic Policies and Poverty
Reduction
(open to Bank, Fund staff,
and the Public) |
1 The organizing committee for the
Workshop comprises: Paul Masson, Research Department (RES), Ratna Sahay (Office of the
Managing Director), Paul Cashin, Paolo Mauro, and Catherine Pattillo (all RES). Administrative
assistance from Rosalind Oliver and Sylvia Brescia (both RES). |
